Re: [HACKERS] psql Week 1

On Oct 6, Matthew N. Dodd mentioned:

> On Tue, 5 Oct 1999, Peter Eisentraut wrote:
> > * when \connect fails, it now keeps the previous connection (formerly
> >   aborted program)
> 
> This is bad.
> 
> Consider some process that connects to various DBs and does stuff like
> drop foo.
> 
> If connect fails assume that the user no longer wanted to be connected to
> the old connection.

I forgot to mention that this only happens in interactive mode for the
very reason you cited. I do not see a problem there.

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